You don’t have to tell Deborah Harston that Warren County’s Plano community is an attractive place to live. She has known that since moving there in 1985.

What worries Harston now is that the rural lifestyle that brought her to Plano is quickly being lost in the name of progress.

“I’m just worried that we’re going to outgrow our capacity for fire protection, roads and the safety of our kids,” Harston said. “Plano has always been such a nice, quiet area. Now I don’t see how the roads are going to accommodate all the growth.”

Spurred by the William H. Natcher Parkway interchange with Ky. 622 (Plano Road), the community has attracted enough commercial and residential development to prompt studies and public meetings by the Bowling Green-Warren County Metropolitan Planning Organization and the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County.

The public input given at those meetings and the work of a consulting firm that studied possible road improvements in the area have been compiled into what’s called a Plano Focal Point Plan that will be unveiled Wednesday during a 5:30 p.m. public meeting at the Warren County Public Library’s Bob Kirby Branch.

In the works for more than a year, the focal point plan put together by the planning commission staff is described as a comprehensive document that looks at how Plano has grown and how it could develop.

“A focal point plan is a product of the process of identifying the character of one section or area of the community and defining desirable development patterns and infrastructure for that area,” said Ben Peterson, executive director of the planning commission.

Peterson said the Plano Focal Point Plan considers location of caves, sinkholes and wetlands, sewer availability, current land use, zoning districts and proposed future land use revisions to come up with ideas for future development in the area.

The focal point plan is a supplement to the countywide 2030 Comprehensive Plan, and Peterson said it will “give recommendations to help achieve desirable outcomes for the Plano community, especially in regards to transportation and land use decisions.”

Transportation is an aspect of particular concern to another Plano resident, Dave Coldwell. He’s hoping for a relatively simple solution to improving the narrow, curvy Plano Road.

“Plano Road can be fixed if you take the S-curve out and widen the road a little bit,” he said. “I really think there’s an easy solution.”

Proposed solutions will be revealed at Wednesday’s meeting, but Peterson said public input at that meeting will still be considered before a final plan is presented to the 12 members of the planning commission.

“Our staff will go over the plan contents and the recommendations and policies,” Peterson said of Wednesday’s meeting. “Any further comments will be incorporated into the plan and be presented to the planning commission for adoption at a later date.”

Peterson said the meeting is scheduled to last two hours and will include a presentation of the focal point plan at 5:45 p.m.